97 Quotes About Setting and Achieving Goals to Help You Realize Your Dreams

Have you ever wondered what the secret is to make your dreams come true?

Some people would say that all you need to do is work hard ‘round the clock to achieve what you really want in life. Others think that it’s all about whom you know and using that connection to achieve success. Some feel that there are just people who are born lucky and get all the breaks.

Regardless of how hard you work but if you are aiming for the wrong dream, then all that effort will only get you to the wrong destination faster. Imagine how disappointing that would be.

Also, despite connections, you still have to prove yourself worthy of whatever success – such as a promotion – that comes your way, especially to those who may have been passed over for you and more so to the one who gave you the leg up.

Eventually proving your worth to others becomes exhausting.

However, there is actually a formula for making your dreams into a reality:

goals + commitment = dreams come true

By having clear goals, you have an idea what exactly you want to achieve and how to go about doing it.

More importantly, having commitment means that you are willing to work hard despite the obstacles in your path in order to make your dreams a reality.

Today’s post features a collection of quotes about setting and achieving goals to manifest your dreams. These quotes come from different individuals who are considered the greatest in their fields. They achieved their dreams by adhering to the formula for success.

I hope you will be inspired to manifest your heart’s desire through quotes about setting goals; quotes about achieving goals and working hard; quotes about achieving success and staying focused on goals; quotes about achieving goals and overcoming obstacles; and quotes about goals, getting started, and investing time in your dreams.

Having a goal serves as a compass to know exactly where you’re headed. Let’s start our journey on the road to success with quotes about setting goals.

Quotes about Setting Goals

“Begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey

“It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.”– Pat Summitt

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”– Michael Korda

“If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time.”– Source unknown

“It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.”– Yuichiro Miura

“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”– Ted Turner

“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”– Michelangelo

“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.” – Warren Buffett

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“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”– Zig Ziglar

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”– Bill Copeland

The following quotes about achieving goals and working hard tells us what we can reap from giving our best effort.

Quotes about Achieving Goals and Working Hard

“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”– Brian Tracy

“If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”– Jill Koenig

“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”– Sid Caeser

“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”– Michael Phelps

“Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.”– Tony Hsieh

“You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.”– Lori Greiner

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”– Bo Bennett

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

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“The going is the goal.”– Horace Kallen

“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.”– Mary Kay Ash

“Dream don’t work unless you do.”– Unknown

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Most impossible goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite size chunks, writing them down, believing them and going full speed ahead as if they were routine.”– Don Lancaster

“There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.”– Mario Cuomo

“Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.”– Tim Blixseth

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”– Henry David Thoreau

“One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.”– Karen Casey

Too often, we expend precious energy on issues that have nothing to do with what we truly want in our lives. It’s like being in a race and constantly looking at the side mirror to see if the other car is gaining rather than focusing on what’s going on in front of you.

“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”– Amelia Earhart

“It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t.”– Stephen Kellogg

“The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.”– Richard Monckton Milnes

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“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”– Mark Caine

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”– Edmund Hillary

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”– Joshua Marine

Why should you go after your dreams?

Each one of us has a unique gift that we can share with the rest of humanity. The world is a better place when you have made a difference, no matter how small you think it is.

Aside from the benefits to humanity, going after what you truly want brings a deeper meaning to your personal life. You become truly alive.

May the following quotes about goals, getting started, and investing time in your dreams give you courage to give it a shot.

Quotes about Goals, Getting Started, and Investing Time in Your Dreams

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”– Stephen King

“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”– George Eliot

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Author Unknown

“A goal without a timeline is just a dream.”– Robert Herjavec

“Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”– Liz Smith

“If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.”– Drew Houston

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”– Confucius

“Don’t rush the process. Good things take time.”– Unknown

“A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence.”– Unknown

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”– George Whitefield

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”– Ernest Hemingway

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”– Sam Levenson

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”– Karen Lamb

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”– Bruce Lee

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”– Diana Scharf

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”– Diane Ackerman

“I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.”– Lin-Manuel Miranda

“You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”– C.S. Lewis

“To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.”– John Glenn

Final Thoughts about Setting and Achieving Goals

We would love to hear from you about your experiences in pursuing your dreams. Also, was there any quote that made you want to take action and start setting goals right now? Please share them in the comments below.

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